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May 16, 1982

THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

BUREAUCRATIC inflexibility by Victoria which
would overcharge North Vancouver District
homeowners $1 million in school taxes appears to

have been stymied.

Provincial legislation last
week forced North Van
School Board to set a mill
rate which would yield
approximately $1 = million

more than it needed - or
wanted

The unique’ dilemma
facing the school board

occurred as a result of the
Distnet municipality losing
the blanket 1S per cent
assessment value rollback it
had won for its homeowners.

ON PARADE for Nonh Van City's 75th birthday celebrations, local Gatdes and other youth organizations were
inspected by Licatenant-Govermor Henry Becll-irving, pictured standing tn foreground ocat to Mayor Jack Loucks
(tar left), Licutenant-governor’s visit Wednesday was tor his official presentation to coancil of City's new coat of

But Distnct’s Director of
Fianancial Services, Mel
Palmer, is confident he has
come up with a way of
untying the hands of the
embarrassed school board.

And Palmer, who fell to
defeat presenting District's
side of the bilter assessment
case, when an appeal board
overturned the 15 per cent
reduction awarded to
homeowners by the court of
revision, may yet get his

arms. (Ellsworth Dickson photo).

Tel. 985-2131

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$im. SCHOOL
TAX BUNGL

NV District takes on Victoria bureaucracy

By CHRIS LLOYD
chance to be the taxpayers’
knight in shining armor.

He intends throwing the
unnecessanly high mill rate
the school board was forced
to set right out of the window
and levying a lower rate
which will meet the board's
financial requirements.

“What [ am saying. tin
short, is ‘to hell with the
ministry of education”,
Palmer told the News last
week

Only two

days earhier.

North Van school board had
set the mill rate at 59.557,
based on the schools tax
base of $391 million sub-
mitted toit by the ministry of
education.

However, that tax base
applied at the time the 15 per
cent residential assessment
reduction won by Dhistrict
was sullin effect.

As the appeal board had
since cancelled the
reduction, the tax base had
risen to $409 bilhon but
under the terms of the
Schools Act the board was
compelled to set its mill rate

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SUNDAY
Sunny

MONDAY
Cloudy with showers

COURSE CUTS FEARED
Fee hikes
of 25-40%
face Cap

students

By NANCY CAMPBELL

STUDENTS will have to work even harder
this summer if they plan to attend
Capilano College. Tuition fees are ex-
pected to jump at least 25 per cent, and
may increase by as much as 40 per cent,
according to the institution's principal.

“AL students will face
a minimum 25 per cent
tultion increase,” Paul
Gallagher said last
week. “We don't know
the final figure yet — it’s
a matter of working out
the formula we must use
to generate the revenue
needed to maintain the
college ~

The college board ts
expected to make its
decision on the increase
by June at the latest

This will be the
second year in a row
students af the North
Shore face
hefty increases Last
year fees jumped 20 per
cent, bringing the cost
to Sid per credit hour

Gallagher said he 1s
unsure Of what cuts will
have to take place next
year to avoid running a
deficat Final funding ts
not known currently
although an & S per cent
increase over last year's
budget ts authonzed by
the provincial
ment, he said
“It appears that the final
budget total will be a LO
to Tl per cent in rease
but if ts not final yet
(eallagher = sand ‘We
should know by the cod

tinsOitudion

Kovern

of the month —

But the Tl per cent
Incrcase to the budget
docs not mean the

government wall provide

a matching increase in
funding. Instead, the
government is
exepected to provide
less funding and tuition
fees would probably
make up any shortfall.

If the college chooses
not to hike fees by at
least 26 per cent — the
amount the government
feels they should —
further cutbacks will
have lo take place

Gallagher hopes the
college can maintain the
same number of tn.
strucional sections acxt
year, “although = there
will be a reallocation
within that amount as
there iscvery year "
Financial shortfalls will
result in taimming other
areas, he says “We
intend to maintain the
level of instruction and
our presence in our
satellite arcas "

Capilano College, in
addition to its) North
Vancouver campus, has
campuses in Squamish
and Scchelt

The college's budget
totalled $12 4 million
last year, and may reach
$13.5 milhon this year

The dramatic tuition
fee increases are partly
caused by inflation But
they are fuciled by a
government directive to
bring all college tuition
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